Volume III: The Modern Humanities

Paper $68.50ISBN: 9789089645166
Published
October 2015
For sale only in the United States, its dependencies, the Philippines, and Canada

This book is the long awaited third volume in a series that provides a comprehensive comparative history of the humanities. This installment turns to the modern period, from 1850 to 2000, bringing together specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literary theory to explore the intertwining nature of these various disciplines, and how together they make up the broader investigative project of the humanities.

Introduction: The Making of the Modern HumanitiesRens Bod, Jaap Maat, and Thijs Weststeijn

I The Humanities and the Sciences 1.1 Objectivity and Impartiality: Epistemic Virtues in the HumanitiesLorraine Daston 1.2 The Natural Sciences and the Humanities in the Seventeenth Century: Not Separate Yet Unequal?H. Floris Cohen 1.3 The Interaction between Sciences and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century Scientific Materialism: A Case Study on Jacob Moleschott’s Popularizing Work and Political ActivityLaura Meneghello 1.4 The Best Story of the World: Theology, Geology, and Philip Henry Gosse’s OmphalosVirginia Richter

II The Science of Language 2.1 The Wolf in Itself: The Uses of Enchantment in the Development of Modern LinguisticsJohn E. Joseph 2.2 Soviet Orientalism and Subaltern Linguistics: The Rise and Fall of Marr’s Japhetic TheoryMichiel Leezenberg 2.3 Root and Recursive Patterns in the Czuczor-Fogarasi Dictionary of the Hungarian LanguageLászló Marácz

III Writing History 3.1 A Domestic Culture: The Mise-en-scène of Modern HistoriographyJo Tollebeek 3.2 History Made More Scholarly and Also More Popular: A Nineteenth-Century ParadoxMarita Mathijsen 3.3 The Professionalization of the Historical Discipline: Austrian Scholarly Periodicals, 1840-1900Christine Ottner 3.4 Manuals on Historical Method: A Genre of Polemical Reflection on the Aims of ScienceHerman Paul 3.5 The Peculiar Maturation of the History of ScienceBart Karstens

IV Classical Studies and Philology 4.1 QuellenforschungGlenn W. Most 4.2 History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the ‘Oriental Religions’Eline Scheerlinck 4.3 ‘Big Science’ in Classics in the Nineteenth Century and the Academicization of AntiquityAnnette M. Baertschi 4.4 New Philology and Ancient Editors: Some Dynamics of Textual CriticismJacqueline Klooster 4.5 What Books Are Made of: Scholarship and Intertextuality in the History of the HumanitiesFloris Solleveld

V Literary and Theater Studies 5.1 Furio Jesi and the Culture of the RightIngrid D. Rowland 5.2 Scientification and Popularization in the Historiography of World Literature, 1850-1950: A Dutch Case StudyTon van Kalmthout 5.3 Theater Studies from the Early Twentieth Century to Contemporary Debates: The Scientific Status of Interdisciplinary-Oriented ResearchChiara Maria Buglioni

VI Art History and Archeology 6.1 Embracing World Art: Art History’s Universal History and the Making of Image StudiesBirgit Mersmann 6.2 Generic Classification and Habitual Subject MatterAdi Efal 6.3 The Recognition of Cave Art in the Iberian Peninsula and the Making of Prehistoric Archeology, 1878-1929José María Lanzarote-Guiral

VII Musicology and Aesthetics 7.1 Between Sciences and Humanities: Aesthetics and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Science of Man’Maria Semi 7.2 Melting Musics, Fusing Sounds: Stumpf, Hornbostel, and Comparative Musicology in BerlinRiccardo Martinelli 7.3 The History of Musical Iconography and the Influence of Art History: Pictures as Sources and Interpreters of Musical HistoryAlexis Ruccius

VIII East and West 8.1 The Making of Oriental Studies: Its Transnational and Transatlantic PastSteffi Marung and Katja Naumann 8.2 The Emergence of East Asian Art History in the 1920s: Karl With(1891-1980) and the Problem of GandharaJulia Orell 8.3 Cross-Cultural Epistemology: How European Sinology Became the Bridge to China’s Modern HumanitiesPerry Johansson

X Philosophy and the Humanities 10.1 Making the Humanities Scientific: Brentano’s Project of Philosophy as ScienceCarlo Ierna 10.2 The Weimar Origins of Political Theory: A Humanities InterdisciplineDavid L. Marshall

XI The Humanities and the Social Sciences 11.1 Explaining Verstehen: Max Weber’s Views on Explanation in the HumanitiesJeroen Bouterse 11.2 Discovering Sexuality: The Status of Literature as EvidenceRobert Deam Tobin 11.3 The Role of Technomorphic and Sociomorphic Imagery in the Long Struggle for a Humanistic SociologyMarinus Ossewaarde 11.4 Sociology and the Proliferation of Knowledge: La Condition HumaineBram Kempers 11.5 Inhumanity in the Humanities: On a Rare Consensus in the Human SciencesAbram de Swaan

XII The Humanities in Society 12.1 The Making and Persisting of Modern German Humanities: Balancing Acts between Autonomy and Social RelevanceVincent Gengnagel and Julian Hamann 12.2 Critique and Theory in the History of the Modern HumanitiesPaul Jay

Epilogue Toward a History of Western Knowledges: Sketching Together the Histories of the Humanities and the Natural SciencesJohn V. Pickstone

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“Attention is fruitfully devoted to the emergence . . . of what are recognizably the modern academic disciplines of world literature, art history, music history, and linguistics, among others. . . . [An] excellent collection. . . . Highly recommended.”

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